david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) (03/02/88)
Once one has UUCP working on a PC under MS-DOS, what is available for reading news? The real 2.11 news software would be a bear to port to DOS. Is there something else (perhaps a simpler, scaled down version) that runs under DOS? -- David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | have to do is to know in advance what 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | the other feller means an' then pay UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | no attention to what he says"
doug@isis.UUCP (Doug Thompson) (03/05/88)
>From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) >Date: 2 Mar 88 01:49:40 GMT >Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland CA >Message-ID: <159@bdt.UUCP> >Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.misc > > >Once one has UUCP working on a PC under MS-DOS, what is available >for >reading news? The real 2.11 news software would be a bear to >port >to DOS. > >Is there something else (perhaps a simpler, scaled down version) >that >runs under DOS? Well at this moment I am using Opus (in keyboard mode) to read (and reply and post). With micro-emacs as the Opus external editor, one can get pretty good reply quoting (as above), move through messages pretty quickly, and create messages quite easily. Ufgate is used to do the actual mail transfer with uucp sites, and to convert the fidonet type of msgs that Opus makes to the standard RFC 822 format. This system assumes you are alrady running a FidoNet mail system. Ufgate allows you to *add* uucp mail and Usenet news capability up to the limit of your disk space. If your objective is simply to have a News system on your PC without the FidoNet part, the Opus/Ufgate combination is perhaps overkill, and you will be operating a lot of code without any reason and wasting time converting back and forth between RFC 822 and FTSC 002 (Fido). The package also doesn't have several features which rn does have (although features are being added all the time so it may not be long). For reading straight RFC 822 msgs I have used the picnix more and grep functions in batch files to search for subject lines and then sequentially display the msgs I want in a way that is remarkably like rn. Of course, this provides for no automatic posting or reply. If you add the FidoNet program confmail to the Opus/Ufgate combo, you get the "maint" function which establishes links between msgs with the same subject line. This permits some capability to follow reply chains through a large msg base. These programs will all be made available by anonymous ftp here as soon as I can figure out how to set that up. I have a set of 1.2 floppies with the whole works on it which I will send to anyone who sends disks and postage. The whole shabang occuppies *3* 1.2 Mb floppies of compressed files. This is not the sort of thing one normally wants to send over the modem at 2400 BAUD long distance. Postal Address: 280 Phillip St., Unit B-3-11, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3X1 UUCP: {path}!watmath!isis!doug Fido: 1:221/0 (Doug_Thompson) Intr: doug@isis.math.waterloo.edu (I realize the site name isis is a duplicate and I am in the midst of changing it. But it works as long as you route through watmath -- UUCP: ... path ... watmath!isis!doug